GBA and DS ROM hacking guide
Sections
Abstract
Foreword
I Introduction
Introduction
- Warning
II ROM hacking concepts
1 Basics
2 Graphics
3 Text
4 Multimedia
5 Game logic
III Examples, oddities and techniques
6 Crystaltile2 general usage guide
7 GBA tracing
- 7.1 Tracing options
  - 7.1.1 Worked examples
8 DS tracing
- 8.1 DS debugging emulators
- 8.2 Cart read command
  - 8.2.1 Basic lookup and methods for it
  - 8.2.2 Header reverse engineering/generated values
9 Reverse engineering various ROM images
10 Developer leftovers
11 Workarounds
12 Moving to a new system
13 Developer tricks aka thinking like a game developer
14 Game design and media
15 Python, batch files and programming for ROM hacking
16 PC program hacking
- 16.1 Debugging
- 16.2 Decompilation
17 Version control and project management.
- 17.1 Project and team management
- 17.2 Version control
18 Interesting links and further reading.
- 18.1 Links
- 18.2 Further reading
IV File formats (specifications, methods and known formats)
19 General things about the DS
20 Generic DS nitro SDK format
21 General file reverse engineering
22 Sound
23 Graphics
24 2d
25 3d
26 Packing format
- 26.1 NARC, ARC and CARC
27 Text
- 27.1 BMG
V Glossary, index and such
28 Glossary
References
Documentation Project on GBATemp

GBA and DS ROM hacking guide

25.3 NSBCA

An animation format for the NSBMD family. Several developers opted out of using NSBCA and wrote their own animations.


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